The Dead Dog'S Renoise Comp Round 6

[rhowaldt]

@üav

What about extending tracking time to one week every two weeks ?

i think these kinds of ideas for certain time-spans (extending the tracking time, adding a prize-round) are great and might enhance the competition in one way or another. i do think that IF any of these are done, it might be necessary to up the ‘difficulty’ for those rounds. in other words: you can expect more out of a week of tracking than out of 2/3 days.
thinking about this, maybe this would be solved by voters just taking tracking-time into account…

[kazakore]

Had meant to put up a Poll today to vote between current and changing to a week of tracking when at work but sorry didn’t due to being busy and now getting ready to leave to go home for Christmas.

Also meant to put up the two entries I have received for this round.

Will do both, plus any extra entries that happen to (unlikely) come in before I get back here. Weather permitting should be the 27th.

Merry festivities to all!

[ascension (barbarian_ascension!)]

@kazakore

barbarian_ascension!: Not to be rude but if you want a competition like you describe set it up and run it yourself.

Sure this round may of suffered a lack of contestants but the chosen rules were particularly hard for those not used to working with that style (if I was more skilled or had the time I might of tried to create an instrument pack trying to get some basic drums, based on methods of analogue drum machines, at the least.) Plus the fact it’s so near to Christmas I would imagine most free time anybody has at the moment will be spent doing last minute shopping and the like.

Generally I have found it has been running quite well. Most rounds so far have had 5/6 entries, which is not far off that of the competitions you see that run for a month or two on here, so I don’t think time scale is a problem. In fact the idea was for regular, short rounds, so people could do one when they feel able and it not matter if they miss some, plus only being a couple of days tracking every so often it’s less likely to take away from your “serious tracking” time.

Rule are 100% flexible and set by the winner of the previous round. How innovative it is is down to the previous winner, with some basic, quite open guidelines, any of which can be overruled if desired. Not sure how you could get more innovative on a regular competition…

For this kind of thing I think open voting is the best way to go. If it was a one off competition, or aimed around certain styles, record labels, remixing or the like, then judges and regular prizes would make more sense. ((see Back2You for an example of this back2you.co.uk

At the end of the day this is meant to be a bit of fun for Renoise users. Tracking, and Renoise users in particular, is quite a small segment of electronic musicians and if you wanted to do something more on the scale you seem to be talking you would want to aim at a much larger audience. Good luck with setting something up if you decide to do so, this competition will remain as it is and I hope people continue to enjoy it.

well, of course, you’re right. and, as i was saying, of course i ain’t gonna do it. it was just a kind of general whining that didn’t really belong on this thread or prob even this forum. so, i should have went and cried on pouët, some schism tracker forum, or some aol message board or… anyway, many apologies.

[woutervanasseldonk (Skornsteen)]

Nothing wrong with the rules of this comp, to bad I had to work today, don’t think I’ll be able to finish it now.
Good luck other contestants!

[kazakore]

Votepack uploaded and tested. Only two entries even with leaving it open over Christmas but never mind. Download it here http://www.deaddogdisko.co.uk/DDRC/Files/R6/Renamed.zip

[kazakore]

Winner is Uav! Congratulations mate.

I hope you all checked out his xrns. Took me a while to figure out how he had Sine, Saw and Square all with exactly the sample sample. Very SHORT sample, massively pitched to bring to usual playback speeds, then using different Interpolation methods to get the different shapes. Very clever! Also helps limit filesize as talking 6 sample points in a sample, rather than the 400 in the guidelines I posted. Kudos man!

Runner up was Beat Fuhrer. Thanks for taking part dude

[Mammoth]

Congratulations Uav (check your pm), shame there is not much votes, the first track was kind off funny also.

[kazakore]

Obviously, as usual, that means please PM me before next round starts with your desired rules. Otherwise I think you all know the basic, open rules by now…

[Uuav (üav)]

Yeah thanks again,
Regarding the 4 samples Sample, I found that trick when I tried to make songs that fit in 8kB, while the square and triangle waves looks great, the sine is not perfect and has some harmonics, but that do the job really well. I first tried with 2 samples Sample, but they where ‘poping’ each note pressed, I wanted to keep fast attacks without the ‘pop’ that’s why the first half of the samples looks like baby squarewaves.

Now if your planning to do micro music competition using renoise, (just like in the EVOKE party) you got the thing to make it fit in 16kB

I really dig Beat Furher’s track by the way.